Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eventual success in removing the sex restriction depends on how many women apply and are endorsed by their schools, and on whether the American secretary of the Rhodes committee, William Barber, changes his previously timid stand on the issue...
...part, the Pentagon victory was engineered in the White House; President Nixon had threatened to veto anything below $79 billion for fiscal 1974. But most of the success was the result of the Defense Department's own efforts...
...move marks the spread of a new strategy by which multinational companies hope to counter the threat of expropriation: the international legal blockade. Kennecott Copper Corp. had some success with the approach last fall, after the Chilean government of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens had expropriated its huge El Teniente mine without compensation. Kennecott got courts in France, Italy, Germany and Sweden to hold up payments by European purchasers for four separate shipments of copper from El Teniente, contending that the copper was in effect stolen property. The shutoff of European markets for the copper probably helped to build economic...
...sense, and most of the women I know from the seven sisters are like that--they are a driven, eager group, but not in the way that has to do with aggression. I remember a male friend of mine once asking me if I didn't have success drives. I thought his question was so sad because I really don't feel that. I can't face myself if I don't do my best and I have a terrific fear of skimming things, of indulging in a lot of big talk. But I don't think you have...
...helped finance include the $150 million, 131-acre Park Central business and recreation center in North Dallas, Atlanta's $175 million Peachtree Center, San Francisco's Embarcadero Center (the last two with Atlanta Architect John Portman). Conservative and lukewarm toward the environmental movement, he attributes his success to a pragmatic "Sunday-school" philosophy of hard work, learning from mistakes and, above all, correctly anticipating real estate needs...